Picture Play Magazine (Mar-Aug 1926)

30 Over the Fanny the Fan recounts the advantages of the come from Hollywood, social life picks up, and By The I'll run giving a • Photo bv Hartsook Lois Wilson's vacation between pictures started out gayly enough, but she ended by going to a hospital to have her tonsils removed. IT must be that you couldn't think of any other place to go," I greeted Fanny, looking up from my book, "else why should you come to meet me less than an hour late ?" "Oh, yes I could, without any effort at all," Fanny told me pleasantly. "And if you're going to be disagreeable about it along right now. Diana Kane is skating party at Iceland, and she promised me the strongest-armed instructor if I would come. Edna Murphy is swimming, over at the Shelton, and Eleanor Boardman wanted some one to guide her on a shopping tour. Then there's always the Palace vaudeville — Natacha Rambova is making her debut there this week. I've seen her act already, but I want to go back and see if she has recovered from her debut nervousness. And this is the very last chance I'll have in a long time to run up to see Mabel Normand, because she is starting rehearsals of a new play to-morrow. But I did think you would like to hear about what has been going on. And after all this selfsacrifice on my part, if you just want to give a lecture on punctuality, I'll arrange for you to try to meet Norma Shearer some time." She knew perfectly well that, if she flung all those names at me so casually, I simply couldn't hide my interest. "Norma late?" she exclaimed. "Just ask Lila Lee or Lois Wilson. Still, you can't very well ask Lila, as she has left for Hollywood. Her husband, James Kirkwood, is due to start a picture out there in a few days. And you can't ask Lois, because she is in a hospital having her tonsils taken out. It looks as though I shall have to tell you. But it's a long story, so please order lots of tea and anything else you can think of." "Throat lozenges might be appropriate," I suggested, but Fanny was deep in an impersonation of a person thinking. "It happened all of a week ago, so it is hard to remember. So many things have happened since then. Next time I see Lila Lee, I'll take along a notebook, and then when I later repeat what she says, without quotes, I'll get a reputation for being clever. "Well, Lois Wilson gave a luncheon in honor of Norma Shearer, who had just come to town for a vacation. It was supposed to be at one o'clock, and by two fifteen, there was an angry mob congregated at the Colony demanding of Lois just why they shouldn't go in and eat Without Norma. " 'She must have you in her power,' we all accused Lois. 'While we're waiting, the least you can do is to tell us the dark secret in your past that she knows.' " 'Maybe she thought you meant the Colony Club instead of the restaurant,' Diana Kane suggested. 'Must have an erroneous idea that you are accepted by the best society. I'll phone and see if she is there.' "Searching through the telephone book, I found a Colony Dairy Lunch and offered to call that on the phone. Lila Lee's suggestion was that we go home / and change to dinner clothes, so that we wouldn't look cons p i c u o u s when Norma should finally arrive. In the midst of the argument, Norma at last blew in, completely disguised under a big hat. "But at the table, we found such darling place cards that Natacha Rambova has gone into vaudeville.